Trump pushes Israel for Gaza, hostage deal while seeking to extend the Abraham agreements

President Donald Trump relies on Israel to put an end to his conflict in Gaza and obtain a hostage agreement while he seeks to extend the Abraham agreements – an achievement of the cornerstone of his first mandate.

Pressure rises while the Minister of Israeli Strategic Affairs, Ron Dermer, is expected to hold meetings of the White House on Monday after the end of the 20 -month war in Gaza.

In an article on Sunday at 1 hour on his social media platform Truth Social, Trump said: “Agree in Gaza. Return the hostages !!!”

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President Donald Trump is joined by Israeli Minister for Strategic Affairs Ron Dermer, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Vice-President JD Vance at a meeting at the Oval Blanche office on February 4, 2025. (Jabin Botsford / The Washington Post via Getty Images)

The reports on Sunday suggested that mediators supervising hostage negotiations – which are closely linked at the end of the end of the military operations of Israel and a day after Gaza – push Israel to send negotiators to Egypt. But Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has so far refused to do so.

Instead, Dermer would have been sent to Washington to ensure that the United States and Israel were lined up before indirect negotiations continue.

Israel argues that Hamas was the roadblock in the return of the remaining 50 hostages still held by the terrorist network, including 49 kidnapped on October 7, 2023, as well as a hostage deceased since 2014.

According to the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 27 other hostages have been deemed killed during or since the October 2023 attack, including two Americans, Itay Chen and Omer Neutra.

Netanyahu also said that there were “doubts” about the fate of several other hostages.

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Relatives of hostages still held in Gaza, Anthony Rubio, Moshe Lavi, Tzur Goldin, Iair Horn and Ilay David, meet the secretary of state Marco Rubio on June 28, 2025, in Washington, Dc (The Smarting and Missing Families Forum)

On Monday, the Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Gideon Sa’ar said: “Israel is serious in his desire to conclude a hostage and cease-fire agreement in Gaza.”

He underlined the acceptance by Jerusalem of a recent proposal presented by the special envoy Steve Witkoff, but which Hamas rejected because it did not include a solution to a permanent ceasefire and a plan to remove the Israeli Gaza forces.

Witkoff is expected to go to Cairo in the coming days to start preventing new negotiations.

To end the military operations of Israel in Gaza will prove a crucial stage in the expansion of Trump’s ambitions to bring the new nations in the Abraham agreements.

Monday, Sa’ar echoes Jerusalem’s ambitions in this effort and said: “We have opportunities before us. We paid the new reality in the Middle East with the blood of our soldiers and citizens.”

A view of a street in the Gaza Strip, seen from an Israeli military vehicle on June 8, 2025. (Reuters / Ronen Zvulun)

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“Israel is interested in extending the circle of the Abraham and standardization agreements. We have an interest in adding countries, such as Syria and Lebanon, our neighbors, to the circle of peace and normalization-while protecting the essential and security interests of Israel,” he added.

Trump has not detailed which nations are interested in normalizing diplomatic relations with Israel, although nations like Saudi Arabia have clearly indicated that while Palestinians continue to suffer in the conflict of Israel-Hamas, normalization is outside the table.

“We have very large countries there right now, and I think we are going to start loading them, because Iran has been the main problem,” Trump told Maria Bartiromo during an exclusivity “Sunday morning future“Interview this week.